Tag "Afghanistan cash smuggling"

By MATTHEW ROSENBERG- The New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan — Packed into hand luggage and tucked into jacket pockets, roughly hewed bars of gold are being flown out of Kabul with increasing regularity, confounding Afghan and American officials who fear

Desperate to find alternate ways to bring in hard currency into Iran, a number of Iranians are packing trucks with devalued Iranian currency, Rial, and entering Afghanistan to trade for dollars. The currency traders are made up of wealthy and